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There are five of them I did my homework Five sisters

I watched the theo and who they see I knohat their work schedules look like I even knohen they have their periods

Yeah, Ito find out as much as I can before I make my move And it wasn’t easy, with all the security they have It’s like walking up on the White House at times But I did it

Now I finally know enough to tell them I’m here

My biological sisters are the easy ones They call themselves Star and Wren, but when I knew them they were Jessica and Jenny They now have the last naerts, no et, or how e No matter how much money they make, they will still be my sisters My blood

The others are more of a mystery There’s Peck, and she’s the drummer She just married Sam Reed, the reality TV star and retired pro football player, and they are about to have a baby She has a really bad speech i her try to talk on TV e for her Well, more for me than for her But still

Then there’s Lark She’s the keyboard player She’s also a self-professed gerloves everywhere she goes But I have a feeling the gloves are aboutthat she doesn’t want anyone to know it She’s not a ger happened to her and she hides it behind fabric and color I can relate I hide my past too I hide it really well So well that I’m not even sure who I am most days

Then there’s Finch Fin Finny, they call her She’s lead guitarist in their band She’s also faht stands She’s as famous for them as she is for her music And her music is pretty darn fabulous She’s tiny, but curvy, and watching her butt shake as she walks down the street ue in all her wet places every time I see her But I have to shove my wants to the side

I have an ie I’ve cultivated A face I show to the rest of the world, and it’s the face I have to show my sisters so they’ll let me in

I iron my button-down shirt and shake it out in front of the motel mirror I spent et ready to go to them I pull ht all this stupid stuff at Goodwill for less than four dollars Then I spent eight quarters washing it at the Laundroh and put on the blue tie, which is already threatening to choke me

I pick up lance around the roo here is rab the free soap and shaht need them I can wash my hair in a rest stop bathroom, if push comes to shove I stuff the

Now it’s tio and find my sisters I knohere they live I’ve watched theo for weeks, so I know their schedules as well as they do They’re not touring right now since Peck is about to have a baby

I wait for residents to go into their aparth the door just before it closes I pretend like I belong here, even though this swanky building with its fancy door like where I co’s residents and pretend to talk to her so the doorman will think I’m with her I don’t want him to stop me

The woards me with interest She likes nore her when she keeps talking I got what I wanted fro She’s expendable, and she’s aware of it She flounces off the elevator at her stop and I breathe a sigh of relief

I go up a fewto the floor I force myself to halt and take a deep breath The door opens and it’s like falling back in time